subprocess

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• https://queirozf.com/entries/python-3-subprocess-examples

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run

• shell=True - the command string is interpreted as a raw shell command
• universal_newlines=True - converts the output to a string

import subprocess
from pprint import pprint
process = subprocess.run("ls -lha",
                         shell=True,
                         universal_newlines=True,
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
print(process.returncode)
#  0
pprint(process.stdout.split('\n')[:5])
#  ['total 2152',
#   'drwxr-xr-x  44 darrenkidney  staff   1.4K 28 Jul 20:43 .',
#   'drwxr-xr-x   7 darrenkidney  staff   224B 19 Jul 11:36 ..',
#   '-rw-r--r--@  1 darrenkidney  staff   8.0K 19 Jul 15:21 .DS_Store',
#   'drwxr-xr-x   4 darrenkidney  staff   128B 19 Jul 11:06 .Rproj.user']